Gérard Abrial throws white into his painting as if to calm the fire within him, in a “sfumato” style.”Talent”, Dali said, “is work and then more work, plus a dash of madness”. And Abrial knows that. Although contemporary, he doesn’t like art for art sake.

A student of C.Viallat at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Nice, then tutored by Martial Rysse at the Paris School of Decorative Arts, his style is unlike any other.

Periods of tumult took Gérard Abrial mysteriously off into the raw inspiration of the Africanists. From the alchemy of ochre earth, chalks and charcoal, natural oxides that he uses in different technics, oil, fresco, glazes to the magic ; his work adds life to life ! Increasingly gestural, in formats which are ever larger, Gérard Abrial throws white into his painting as if to calm the fire within him, in a “sfumato” style